Duplicator.



PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. G. H. EPPLE. DUPLIGATOR, APPLICATION FILED JULY22, 1903.

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No. 759,251. PATBNTED MAY 10, 1904. i

O. H. EPPLE.

" AQTTOHNE is Patented May 10, 1904.

lhviTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL HENRY EPPLE, OF NElV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO l-llh ISELF,

CHARLES L. CURTIS, AND JOHN A. KELLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUPLICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,251, dated May 10,1904.

Application filed July 22,1903. Serial No. 166579. (No model-l To 06/:when it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, (last llENRY Errnn, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

5 in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new andlmproved Duplicator, of which the following is afull, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in 1:0 machines for duplicatingorder-checks or the like, an object being to provide a device for thispurpose that will be simple in construction, having no parts liable toget out of order, that may be easily operated, and by means of I 5 whicha permanent record of the orders or sales may be made for the use of anaccountant or cashier and at the same time duplicate the written matteron a check to be presented to a customer for settlement.

2o 1 will describe a duplicator embodying my invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

25 in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a duplicator embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and

Fig. 4: is a detail, showing the shifting mechanism employed.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a casing having a top 2, thatmay be removed for adjusting the parts arranged in the casing.

35 Having bearings in hangers 3 and attached to the under side of thetop 2 is a driving-shaft 4, having a bevel-pinion 5 at one end meshingwith a bevel-pinion 6 on a spindle 7 supporting a spool or roller 8,upon which the 40 permanent record strip 9 is designed to be.

wound, the same being given off from a spool 10 on a spindle 11, havinga bevel-pinion 12 engaging with a similar pinion 13 on the shaft 4. Thespindle 11 is held from back move- '45 ment, as here shown, by means ofa springpressed pawl 14 engaging with ratchet-teeth 15 on the end of thespool. Secured to the spindle 7 is a toothed wheel 16, engaged by aspring-pressed pawl 17, carried by an arm 18,

having swinging connection with a hanger 19, which also forms a bearingfor one end of the spindle 7. From this arm 18 a push-rod 20 passesupward freely through an opening in the top 2, and between the headportion on this push-rod and the top 2 a spiral spring 21 is arranged,which will raise the pawl 17 to its uppermost position when the push-rodis released.

Adjacent to the spool 8 is a spool 22, carried by a spindle 23, anddesigned to take up a carbon strip 24, the same being given off from aspool 25, which is held from backward movement by means of aspring-pressed pawl 26, engaging with ratchet-teeth 27 on the end of thespool. Secured to the spindle 23 is a bevel-pinion 28, designed to beengaged with a bevel-pinion 29 movable lengthwise of the shaft 4, butarranged to rotate therewith.

A shifting bar 30 has a fork portion engaging in an annular channelformed in the hub of the pinion 29, and this shifting bar extends upwardthrough an openingin the top 2, where it is provided with a linger-piece31. The two strips 9 and 2st are carried up through a slot 32 in the topplate, thence over a frame 33, under the opening of which is a bed-plate3 1, and then the strips are carried through a slot 35 in said top 2 totheir respective takeup rollers.

In the operation a ticket or check X is to be passed underneath the twostrips at the portions passing over the frame, the check being alsopassed underneath the frame,which at its sides is spaced above thebed-plate and above the top of the casing, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.Then by writing the order or other matter on the strip 9 the same willbe transferred by the carbon strip to the check. iVVhen it is desired tomove the permanent strip 9 to place a new section thereof in position toreceive an order or the like, the push-rod 20 is to be forced downward,which will through the medium of the pawl 17 and the wheel 16 rotate thespools 8 and 10, causing the strip to be taken up by one spool and givenotf by the other. Each downward movement of the rod 20 moves the stripby one step; but it may be moved any desired distance by repeatedmovements of the push-bar. \Vhen this section of the carbon stripbecomes useless, a new section may be drawn into position by moving thepinion 29 into engagement with the pinion 28. Then by operating thepush-rod, as before mentioned, the carbon strip will be taken off thespool 25 and wound on the spool 22.

It will be understood that the several spools are mountedsufiicientlyfriction-tight on their spindles to turn the spools with thespindles, but permit of the necessary slipping or variations of speed asthe rolls vary in diameter.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A machine for the purpose specified comprising acasing, a take-up spindle for a ree 0rd strip, a take-off spindle forsaid strip, means for simultaneously operating the spindles,carbon-strip spindles in the casing, means for operating saidcarbon-strip spindles with the first-named spindle, and means forreleasing the carbon strip spindles from operative connection with saidfirst-named spindle.

2. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a take-up spindle fora record strip arranged in the casing, a take-elf spindle for said striparranged in the casing, a shaft, gear connections between said shaft andthe two spindles, a take-up spindle for a carbon strip, a take-offspindle for said carbon-strip.a pinion on the last-named take-upspindle, and a pinion movable on the shaft for engaging with the pinionon the spindle.

3. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a casing, the topthereof having slots, a frame arranged on the top between the slots, abed-plate arranged in the frame, a record strip passing over the frameand through said slots, a carbon strip passing through said slots andover the frame, and means for causing the lengthwise movement of saidstrips.

4. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a casing, a frame onthe top of the easing and spaced above the said top at the sides,whereby a ticket may be placed laterally underneath the framing, arecord strip passing over said frame, a carbon strip passing over theframe, and means for moving said strips lengthwise of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GARL HENRY EPPLE.

'lVitnesses:

JNo. M. BITTER, C. R. FERGUSON.

